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Hire C++ developers who keep performance-critical code maintainable
Engines, trading and simulation systems, desktop software and the native code your product cannot rewrite. A dedicated C++ developer from Latin America who works your hours and writes modern, readable C++.
TRUSTED BY TEAMS WHOSE CLOUDTASK HIRES HAVE STAYED 5 TO 8 YEARS
How it works
How do I hire a C++ developer?
You do one thing: interview. We handle everything else.
Post the role
5 minutes. The role, the motion, the tools, the comp band. That is all we need to start.
Review your matches
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours.
Interview and hire
We coordinate interviews. On Managed Staffing, we also handle payroll and compliance across LATAM.
WHY TEAMS TRUST CLOUDTASK
What you get with every hire
Dedicated to your codebase
One C++ developer who learns your code, your conventions and your roadmap. Not a freelancer who closes a ticket and moves on.
Same hours as your team
Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US working day, so code review, standups and production issues get handled live.
Searched against your stack
C++ standard, compiler, build system and the platforms you ship on come from your brief, and each profile is checked against them before you see it.
Replacement guarantee
24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire. If the fit is wrong, the guarantee covers the replacement search.
WHY CLOUDTASK
Staffing with numbers behind it
10,000+
hires placed
since 2016
85%
still in seat
past 90 days
24 months
replacement guarantee
on Managed Staffing
12
countries
across Latin America and the Caribbean
TECH STACK
The C++ stack we screen for
Modern C++
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RAII and smart pointers
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Move semantics
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Templates and concepts
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The standard library and ranges
Build and tooling
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CMake
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GCC, Clang and MSVC
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Conan and vcpkg
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Sanitizers and static analysis
Domains
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Desktop apps with Qt
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Real-time and embedded systems
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High-performance and low-latency services
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Graphics and game engines
Quality and interop
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GoogleTest and Catch2
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Profilers and benchmarks
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Multithreading and atomics
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Python bindings
PRICING MODEL
Managed Staffing.
Managed Staffing is open to every role we place. We find the person, handle payments and compliance, and stay involved after the hire with check-ins, visibility, and escalation when something is off. You get the person. We keep the machine running. For roles that create demand, outbound SDRs, BDRs, demand generation and full-cycle AEs, Managed Staffing runs on a six-month minimum term.
Pay
One all-in monthly rate
Per person. That is the number, and there is nothing added to it.
In the monthly rate
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Matching coordination
- Worker payments
- Compliance and employment administration
- Onboarding support at day 0, 7, 30 and 60
- Ongoing check-ins with the hire and with you
- Time and activity tracking, on by default
- Performance escalation
- 24-month replacement guarantee. Replacements not capped.
- Health benefits available on request
- Equipment benefits available on request
Stays with you
- The work itself
- Priorities and direction
- Who you hire
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchPRICING MODEL
Direct Hire.
Direct Hire is open to every role we place. We find the person, vet them, and hand them over. You employ them, you manage them, you own the relationship from day one. Roles that create demand usually land here, because live call feedback and daily coaching work best coming straight from your sales leader, and there is no minimum term.
Pay
20% to 30%
Of first-year base salary. One time, quoted per role, paid when they accept.
In the fee
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Shortlist of matched candidates
- Interview coordination
- Offer support
- 6-month replacement guarantee. One replacement, same job description.
Yours when they accept
- Employment and payroll
- Compliance and employment administration
- Ongoing management
- Time and activity tracking
- Health benefits and equipment benefits
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchHow CloudTask compares
Run the numbers. We did.
The same role, three ways to fill it.
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| US Direct Hire | Staffing Agency | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Interview | 48 hours | 3 to 6 weeks | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Payroll & Compliance | Included on Managed Staffing | You manage | Included in rate |
| Vetting Process | Human + AI verified | You screen | Recruiter screened |
| Candidate spam | Screened out before you see a profile | Common | Low |
| Tool Verification | Verified per candidate | Self-reported | Rarely verified |
| Free Replacements | 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire | None | Variable |
Testimonials
Trusted by teams that hire with us
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LATAM has been a gold mine for talent. Our CloudTask hires understand our company culture and mission, and they connect with our customers in a way that drives high NPS and CX scores.
David Barrett CEO, Expensify -
At first we were an SF-based team only. Then I met Amir Reiter back in 2018. After visiting Medellín, I knew LATAM would be key to our growth and success.
Tim Zheng CEO, Apollo.io -
After meeting my CX and CS team in Medellín, we immediately loved the culture and the work ethic. As a European-HQ company, we found LATAM to be perfect to service our American clients.
Carl Carell CRO and Co-founder, GetAccept
SKILLS
Top skills to look for in a C++ developer
C++ has decades of standards, and experience in one era does not always cover another. These are the skills that decide whether your C++ is fast and safe to change.
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Resource safety with RAII
Owns memory, files and locks through objects and smart pointers, so leaks and double frees do not depend on remembering to clean up.
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Modern standards, used well
Knows what the newer C++ standards added and uses them to make code clearer, not to show off template tricks.
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Performance from measurement
Profiles before optimizing, understands cache behavior, allocations and copies, and proves a speedup with a benchmark.
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Concurrency done carefully
Threads, atomics and locks used with a clear model, and data races found with sanitizers rather than luck.
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Build system fluency
Keeps CMake or the build you use clean, fast and reproducible across compilers and platforms.
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Undefined behavior avoided
Knows the common sources of undefined behavior and writes code that does not work only by accident.
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Tests and legacy care
Adds tests around old code before changing it, and moves legacy code forward in small steps.
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AI as a tool, reviewed
Uses coding assistants for boilerplate and tests, and reviews every generated line for lifetime and ownership errors.
HIRING GUIDE
How to hire C++ developers
C++ systems are often the ones that cannot be rewritten, so they need maintainers who make them better, not replacements. This guide covers what a C++ developer does, how to scope the role, what to test, the red flags and when a dedicated C++ developer is the wrong hire.
What does a C++ developer do?
Builds and maintains native software in C++: engines, desktop applications, real-time and embedded systems, high-performance services and libraries that other languages call.
Day to day that means writing and reviewing code, profiling hot paths, keeping the build working across compilers and platforms, and moving older code toward safer patterns.
Which C++ do you run?
A codebase written in older C++ style, with raw pointers and manual memory management, needs different habits than one built on modern standards with smart pointers and the standard library.
Put the standard, the compiler and the build system in the brief. If you want to modernize, say so, because it is a skill of its own.
C++ or C: which do you need?
C++ adds classes, templates, a large standard library and automatic resource management on top of what C offers. Firmware and kernels often use C only.
Hire for the language your codebase uses. For pure C work, see our C developers page.
Performance and domain knowledge
C++ is usually chosen because performance matters, and the domain decides what performance means: frame times in a game, latency in trading, throughput in a simulation, memory on a device.
Ask how the candidate found and fixed the last performance problem in their domain, with a measurement before and after.
What to test in a C++ developer interview
Give a small task close to your real work: a class that owns a resource, with copy and move behavior defined and a test. Read how they manage ownership and errors.
Then show code with raw new and delete across several functions and ask how they would make it safe. A strong answer moves ownership into objects, step by step, with tests.
Red flags in C++ developer candidates
Manual memory everywhere. Raw new and delete in new code, when smart pointers would do, means leaks and crashes later.
Template tricks for their own sake. Code that only its author can read is expensive for the rest of the team.
Optimization by folklore. Micro-optimizing without a profiler often makes code harder to read and no faster.
No sanitizers, no warnings. A candidate who has never used address or thread sanitizers has probably shipped memory and threading bugs.
Generated code they cannot explain. Ask them to walk through code they wrote with an AI assistant. If they cannot say who owns each object, nobody has reviewed it.
When should you not hire a dedicated C++ developer?
When performance is not the constraint and a managed language would let you ship faster, such as a standard web backend or an internal tool.
It is also the wrong hire when nobody on your side can review code or set priorities. A single developer with no technical lead and no product owner tends to build what is interesting instead of what the business needs.
How much does it cost to hire a C++ developer?
It depends on seniority, the scope of the work and the country the person works from, and any single number describes one scenario and calls it a price.
What is worth understanding is the shape. On Managed Staffing it is one all-in monthly rate per person, with payments, compliance and replacement cover inside it. On Direct Hire it is a one-time fee of 20% to 30% of first-year base salary and the person goes on your payroll. We quote your number before you interview anyone.
Why hire a C++ developer in Latin America?
Overlap. Development runs on code review, standups and incidents, and Latin America and the Caribbean share most of the US working day, so those happen in real time instead of overnight.
The second reason is communication. Your developer writes pull request descriptions, technical notes and status updates in English, and we screen English live on a call.
How does CloudTask hire for this role?
You send the C++ standard, compiler, build system and platforms you ship on, the kind of work and the hours you need covered. We source against that brief and come back with 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours, each one screened on a live call and checked against the stack you named.
You interview and choose. On Managed Staffing we handle payments, compliance and onboarding and stay involved with check-ins. On Direct Hire the person joins your payroll from day one. Both carry a replacement guarantee: 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire.
FAQ
The fine print, in plain terms.
Can a C++ developer modernize our legacy code?
What is the difference between a C++ developer and a C developer?
Do you place C++ developers for game engines?
How fast can a C++ developer start?
What is the $299 for?
Why is there no number on the monthly rate?
Who is the legal employer?
How does tracking work, and can I turn it off?
What happens if the person does not work out?
Is there a platform or subscription fee?
Ready to hire?
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours. Start with a quick role brief to get your shortlist.